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November 24, 2014 4:35 PM EST
And that's not all: Jennifer Lopez, Big Sean and George Ezra join in taking over atop tallies this week. Chart Highlights offers a sneak peek at a select group of Billboard charts every Monday. Find out the top songs, Greatest Gainers and ...

July 14, 2014 1:00 PM EDT
0 0 0 Garfunkel & Oates are hitting the road. The comedy music duo of Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome have teamed with Live Nation for a 14-date U.S. trek that kicks off Aug. 22 in Dallas, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Monster Energy and Idol Roc ...

April 09, 2014 5:33 PM EDT
0 0 0 Daryl Hall has yet another reason to celebrate aside from the induction of Hall and Oates into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tomorrow night. His critically acclaimed, award-winning performance series "Live from Daryl’s House" has renewed ...

April 01, 2014 4:43 AM EDT
0 0 0 Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks, Carrie Underwood, Chris Martin: The stars are turning out to salute the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. The hall of fame announced Tuesday that "The Boss" will fittingly induct and perform with h ...

February 27, 2014 9:33 PM EST
0 0 0 John Oates would love to tell you that there is some kind of master plan behind the upcoming release of "Good Road To Follow," his forthcoming three-EP set, which is due March 18 on PS / Elektra. Honestly -- he would love to. “It came toge ...

December 02, 2013 11:59 AM EST
Following Thanksgiving and still more than three weeks before Christmas Day, the holiday season is in full effect at AC radio, as Kelly Clarkson's "Underneath the Tree" reaches the Adult Contemporary chart apex (16-1, with Greatest ...

November 29, 2013 11:30 AM EST
0 0 0 Almost 10 years since charting their last single, and a month after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominated the group for the first time, Daryl Hall and John Oates plan to record again. "Never say never," Oates told Billboard in a recen ...

June 20, 2013 11:30 AM EDT
John Oates has been part of plenty of singles with partner Daryl Hall, 15 of which have been Top 10 hits. Now the single is becoming Oates' primary expression as a solo artist. Oates has launched a new series called Good Road To Follow in whi ...

June 17, 2013 10:01 AM EDT
Jack Johnson, Daryl Hall & John Oates, and Yo Gabba Gabba are among the big names confirmed for the Sept. 21-22 Life Is Good Festival, a family-friendly event which raises funds for a good cause. Organizers expect to draw more than 30,000 & ...

June 14, 2013 8:32 PM EDT
Jack Johnson was still a few hours away from Manchester, Tenn., to play a surprise set at Bonnaroo with his Brushfire Records act ALO on Thursday night (June 13) when he got the call. Mumford & Sons had just canceled their headlining Saturda ...

November 26, 2012 1:10 PM EST
Rod Stewart ends a more than 19-year hiatus from the Adult Contemporary summit, as "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" roars 18-1. The song scales the survey as, following Thanksgiving, almost half of the chart's reporters have ...

November 02, 2012 6:35 PM EDT
The mood was definitely celebratory at Warner Music Nashville 's post- CMA Awards bash held at the company's headquarters on Music Row . The evening's big winner was Blake Shelton , who took home trophies for entertainer and male vo ...

June 14, 2012 9:45 PM EDT
The Billboard 200: There was a lot of big news on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week as Adele's "21" returned to No. 1 for a 24th week, while Alan Jackson arrived in the runner-up slot with "Thirty Miles West." The B ...

June 08, 2012 2:12 PM EDT
Marina & the Diamonds While Marina & the Diamonds (Marina Diamandis) has flirted with U.S. chart success in the past, the Elektra/Atlantic act could be on its way to its first hit single with "Primadonna." The track, from her rec ...

April 23, 2012 3:16 PM EDT
Multiple Juno Award winner and world music promoter Billy Bryans died today after battling lung cancer. He was 63. While he is best known as the co-founder and percussionist of 80s eclectic pop group the Parachute Club and co-writer of the endurin ...

October 11, 2011 1:30 PM EDT
Davy Kirkwood, an audio engineer who worked with acts ranging from the Rolling Stones to Rihanna over the past 30 years, died last week, according to Hall & Oates manager Jonathan Wolfson. He was 63. Born David Perry Kirkwood in Glasgow, Scotl ...

September 24, 2011 10:17 AM EDT
0 0 0 In 1969, Philadelphia friends Daryl Hall and John Oates began a musical partnership that blended rock and pop with their hometown's signature soul-a sound they dubbed "rock and soul." It worked. From the mid-'70s to the mid-' ...

September 20, 2011 6:10 PM EDT
0 0 0 After nearly four years as an Internet sensation, Daryl Hall's "Live From Daryl's House" is coming to broadcast TV. The award-winning music and conversation program, debuts in 95 markets on Sept. 24 with back-to-back half-hour ep ...

July 01, 2011 2:05 PM EDT
0 0 0 Ask Billboard is updated every Friday. As always, submit your questions about Billboard charts, sales and airplay, as well as general music musings, to askbb@billboard.com . Please include your first and last name, as well as your city, state and co ...

May 23, 2011 3:45 PM EDT
0 0 0 D aryl Hall is in the mixing phase for "Laughing Down Crying," his first new solo album in a dozen years. Hall has been working on the album, which is due out this fall on Verve Records, "for quite a while." It marks his first re ...

February 14, 2011 5:07 PM EST
0 0 0 Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip. 'Glee' Likely to Feature Original Songs in Upcoming Episodes At a pre-Grammy Guild of Music Surpervisors awards ceremony and brunch held yesterday (Feb. 13), Bi ...

February 12, 2011 11:46 AM EST
Daryl Hall's online performance series "Live From Daryl's House" will make the transition to television this fall as seven Tribune stations have picked up 36 episodes of the half-hour show. The half-hour weekend show will be se ...

January 07, 2011 5:15 PM EST
0 0 0 Ask Billboard is updated every Friday. As always, submit your questions about Billboard charts, sales and airplay, as well as general music musings, to askbb@billboard.com . Please include your first and last name, as well as your city, state and co ...

October 29, 2010 4:05 PM EDT
0 0 0 Ask Billboard is updated every Friday. As always, submit your questions about Billboard charts, sales and airplay, as well as general music musings, to askbb@billboard.com . Please include your first and last name, as well as your city, state and co ...

March 01, 2010 9:50 AM EST
0 0 0 Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, who played bass for nearly 30 years with Daryl Hall and John Oates and also recorded with Elvis Costello and Billy Joel, died Saturday (Feb. 27) of an apparent heart attack. Wolk was to have performed with Hall and Oates ...

December 16, 2009 5:30 PM EST
0 0 0 Through the end of the year, Chart Beat is looking back at the biggest achievements on Billboard's charts in 2009 and throughout the past decade. Tuesday, Dec. 15: Best of 2009, Part 1 Wednesday, Dec. 16: Best of 2009, Part 2 Tuesday, Dec. 22: ...

December 02, 2009 10:34 PM EST
0 0 0 Completing the trifecta of the big three categories, Beyonce topped the nominations for the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, with 10 total nods, including Album of the Year for "I Am...Sasha Fierce," Record of the Year for "Halo" and S ...

November 27, 2009 11:02 AM EST
0 0 0 Listen to some of the best-selling holiday albums of all time, in full, here on Billboard.com . Check out sonic season's greetings from Mannheim Steamroller , Josh Groban , Kenny G. and more. Then head over to some of the hottest holiday goodie ...

November 17, 2009 1:52 PM EST
0 0 0 The bright lights and roaring crowds of New York's Madison Square Garden are a long way from the juvenile detention centers of North Carolina where Jimmy Wayne spent parts of his youth. With a new single, a cover of the Hall & Oates classic ...

November 04, 2009 5:00 PM EST
0 0 0 With more than 40 years of music making and more than 60 million records sold, Daryl Hall and John Oates are one of the most succesful and enduring pop duos of all time. "We always envisioned doing this for a long time," Oates says. " ...

October 22, 2009 6:49 PM EDT
0 0 0 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE ...: More than a week before Halloween, and five weeks before Thanksgiving, the Billboard 200 is being decorated with a sleighful of yuletide albums. Five new holiday sets enter the Billboard 200, led by Bob Dy ...

October 21, 2009 11:33 AM EDT
0 0 0 'THIS' LOVE: " This Is It ," by Michael Jackson featuring the Jacksons , soars onto the Adult Contemporary airplay chart at No. 19. The song blasts in following its initial week at radio. "This Is It" returns the Jackso ...

October 08, 2009 4:38 PM EDT
0 0 0 Daryl Hall and John Oates aren't making any new music together in the foreseeable future, but they're about to lay a load of their past material on fans. "Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall and John Oates" ...

July 22, 2009 5:00 PM EDT
0 0 0 John Oates, the curly coifed half of the best-selling pop duo Hall & Oates, can remember the exact day and time that he removed his iconic facial hair. "I did it in Tokyo after we did a John Lennon Tribute concert," he told Billboard.c ...

April 24, 2009 12:00 AM EDT
The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) will honor legendary musical artists Daryl Hall and John Oates with the chairman's award for sustained creative achievement at the organization's annual convention, to be held Ju ...

April 07, 2009 10:31 AM EDT
– The newly reunited Stone Temple Pilots announce a 65-date reunion tour and play for the first time since 2002. 2008 – Bob Dylan becomes the first rock and roll musician to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. 1998 – George Michael is arrested for dis ...

March 23, 2009 12:00 AM EDT
– With “Confessions,” Usher becomes the first R&B artist to have an album sell 1.1 million copies in its first week. 2004 – Roy “Pop” Lewis of bluegrass gospel group the Lewis Family dies at a hospital in Washington, Ga. He is 98. 2002 – ZZ ...

November 07, 2008 12:00 AM EST
Daryl Hall & John Oates have signed with United Talent Agency, Billboard.biz has learned. The duo is prepping a 2009 tour to support their latest release "Daryl Hall & John Oates, Live from the Troubadour." Additionally, UTA will ...

November 06, 2008 12:00 AM EST
0 0 0 Daryl Hall and John Oates have filed a lawsuit saying their music publisher failed to protect their rights to their 1982 hit "Maneater." Daryl Hall and John Oates have filed a lawsuit saying their music publisher failed to protect their ri ...

November 06, 2008 12:00 AM EST
Daryl Hall and John Oates have filed a lawsuit saying their music publisher failed to protect their rights to their 1982 hit "Maneater." The pop duo's lawsuit says they learned in April 2007 that an unidentified singer-songwriter ha ...

November 02, 2008 12:00 AM EDT
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June 27, 2008 12:00 AM EDT
0 0 0 John Oates wants people to know that he is nothing like what he was when he had a mustache. The Hall & Oates principal is firm about the distinction, because if things go as planned, his mustachio John Oates wants people to know that he is nothi ...